The Management of Racial Integration in Business [Special Report to Management].

DORIOT, Georges F.

$975.00

Item Number: 112869

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1964.

First edition of this work by the father of venture capitalism. Quarto, original half cloth. In near fine condition. Rare and desirable.

Georges F. Doriot was a French-born American venture capitalist. An émigré from France, Doriot became director of the U.S. Army's Military Planning Division, Quartermaster General, during World War II, eventually being promoted to brigadier general. In 1946, he founded American Research and Development Corporation, the world's first publicly owned venture capital firm, earning him the sobriquet "father of venture capitalism." ARDC was the first institutional private equity investment firm that accepted money from sources other than wealthy families although it had several notable investment successes as well. ARDC is credited with the first major venture capital success story when its 1957 investment of $70,000 in Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) would be valued at over $38 million after the company's initial public offering in 1968 (representing a return of over 500 times on its investment and an annualized rate of return of 101%).